By popular demand here is I hope thee last chapter of this story. I didn't want to do this so you better thank me somehow. Also you'll notice that i don't include sasuke because i hate him, I just hate him.

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The smell of pork tickled Naruto's nose, than eggs, than the noodles, He heard his stomach growl.

" Order up!!"

A large bowl of ramen was placed in in front of him and he quickly got to work devouring it. He was terribly hungry. He had been training all day, trying to perfect the air blast jutsu. He needed it in his bag of tricks for the upcoming Chunnin exams. Naruto knew he was better than alot of the nin that were partakeing in the contest. But he also knew there were people much better than him.

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Naruto looked down to find an empty bowl.

" Ah man! I was so lost in thought I didn't even get to enjoy it," Naruto said with annoyence.

Naruto grew a look that he got whenever he had a devilish idea run through his head.

" Hey old man somebody stole my ramen I want some more!" he said and tilted his bowl sideways.

" Sorry Naruto, Chouji tries that one all the time,"

Naruto moved his arms in a semicircle and snapped his fingers. " Rats!"

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"Alright everyone this is it- the Forest of Death," Anko said and pointed to the gates that were surrounding the forest.

Naruto watched in aww as he felt the black aura that ingulfed the area, the colour black for death.

" You'll be in teams of three and together you'll need to collect these two scrolls," she said and held up one earth scroll and one heaven scroll. " If you have any respect for your lives do not open them until you arrive at the arena in the middle of the forest. Well now that instructions are given pick your teammates!"

The crowd was immidiately hyper with activity as people desperatelly wanted to get the strongest ninjas on their team. In less than a minute most people were gone and Naruto looked around.

" Boy not many people left. There's only Boki, Lee, Hakin, Toshi, Sakura, Teru, Go- wait Sakura!" Naruto exclaimed.

Naruto rushed over to her and stood behind her, she was unaware of his presence.

" Hey Sakura-chan," he greeted.

It startled her. " Oh don't tell me you want me to be in your group," she said- annoyed.

" Doesn't look like you have much of a choice," he replied.

Sakura looked around, she only saw Rock Lee who would "have" to be their third member. " Damn it I hate it when your right!"

" So that's a yes?" he asked knowing what she would say.

The three man team picked up their scroll and headed to their gate. They intrusted Lee with their treasure because of how honest he was, he would never betray them. They walked with Naruto and Sakura at the front and Lee about 10 yards away. Naruto thought it was the perfect time to try to talk to Sakura privetly.

" Psst, Sakura..." he started.

" What do you want baka," she responded.

" It's ok Sakura-chan, no one can hear us," he said completely ignoring her insult. That's how he got through her sass, he knew she was just acting.

" I have no idea what you're talking about," she said in a tone that screamed 'shut up you idiot'.

Naruto saddened. They arrived at their gate and when the siren went off they went in. The first thing they noticed was the smell of swamp gas and how wet it was. The sun hardly ever shined in so the rain never evaporated. Plus, It was dark, even in the daytime. You could say...it wasn't a very happy place.

They walked in a line, Sakura at the front, her keen eyes seeing any danger. Naruto in the middle, checking the sides and had two clones hidden in the trees to look for danger above and to counter incase of an ambush. Finally, Lee at the back for behind attacks.

They only had to be ingaged in battle once before night. They won but couldn't get their scroll before they fled. At the small fire they made they roasted a wild bore they found and killed, It wasn't exactly tasty meat but it was meat, and certainly better than soldier pills.

When it was time for sleep they decided on six hours of sleep and since there was three of them it was two hours each of watch gaurd duty. First Lee then Sakura then Naruto. Lee went to go to the bathroom and Naruto tried again to talk to Sakura.

" Sakura I know we agreed not to socialize but why do-" he was interrupted.

" Shut up, idiot," she whispered,

" But Sakura," he said lowly

" Just shut up, we don't know when he'll be back," she whispered again.

Naruto sighed.

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Naruto woke up to a hand on his mouth and someone shhing him. He feared the worst.

" It's ok Naruto it's just me," Sakura said very lowly.

" What is it Sakura is it my turn to keep watch?" Naruto asked at the same volume.

" No but if Lee wakes up that's what i'll say i'm doing."

" Well than what do you want?"

" I needed to tell you that you need to stop trying to interact with me, we agreed we wouldn't speak to each other normally unless we were absolutely sure that no one would hear us. Believe me I want things to be as they should be as much as you do but it's just to risky at this point."

" But why?"

" Well people already think of you horribly and i'm sorry but there isn't anything I can do about that. If i'm seen with you it will only make me as much of laughing stock as you, and i'm not trying to be selfish but it won't help either of us if that happens."

" Well do you have to be mean to me to?"

" I don't want to be mean but everyone else is mean to you so it would be suspicious if I was the only one who wasn't and people might start asking questions."

Naruto nodded.

" Good" Sakura said with a smile.

three days later.

Lee, Sakura, and Naruto sat on the couch in the lobby of the arena building. They easily got their 2nd scroll by taking advantage of a guard who fell asleep and snuck around and stole their scroll.

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It was the last match of the finals and Naruto was in a fight with one of the toughest genins of the year. Yoki, from the earth country. Sakura had already been knocked out and Lee had already won his match and become a chuunin.

Naruto was half through his chakra and Yoki seemed to have only used a bit.

"Earth element! Stone saw jutsu!" Yoki declared. He plunged his hand into the ground and pulled out a thin circle of stone about 12" in diameter. It started to spin around rapidly in his hand, with that, he through it straight at Naruto. seeing it's alarming speed, Naruto hit it way with a kunai. This however didn't do the trick. Although it deflected the saw it came right back, He tried it again and with the same result, it would seem that it had a homeing trait. To make sure he was right he ran around in zig-zag pattern and found that it followed him. He continued to deflect it until he could figure out a way to get rid of the nuisance.

Sakura watched Naruto loseing from the crowd. Inside she was incredibley worried that the stone would cut his head off at any moment. On the outside she appeared to be bored out of her mind. She desperately wanted to cheer Naruto on, to give him an extra boost. But she couldn't because there was no one cheering him on, she figured she was the only one in the crowd that didn't dislike him.

Naruto held his kunai above his head and was about to slice the saw in two. He then felt a sharp pain in his stomach and fell to the ground because of a punch to his gut. He layed on the ground short of breath, when all of a sudden the saw appeared right in front of him and he only managed to roll over. The saw left a deep gash in his left arm before turning around to try to hit him again. Naruto let out a scream of pain and got up.

The scream cut through Sakura more than the saw cut through Naruto. This wasn't good, with little use of his arm Naruto was as good as dead.

The saw came around again and Naruto tried to block it but dropped his weapon because of the pain in his arm, resulting in having the saw cut his right leg. Naruto let out a couple of tears. There was no way he would be able to stop it. He knew he would die here. Naruto was never one to drag things on so he dropped to his knees, leaving his neck directly in the path of the saw. He awaited his doom.

"Come on Naruto don't let this asshole screw with your head! kick his but!" He heard a voice yell fom the crowd.

Naruto knew exactly who it was. Sakura. Naruto's eyes burned with determination. He felt his whole body fill with energy. It was like he had 6 coffees and a bag of suger. If Sakura told him to kick his but than that's exactly what he would do, kick his but.

"Sakura what are you doing! Naruto's a loser why are u cheering him on?" Ino asked. Sakura whipped her head towards her and leaned above her. Making Ino slide down into her chair.

"Naruto's a sweet boy and I like him you got a problem with that!!" she yelled even though Ino was right below her.

Ino cowered. "N-N-N-N-N-No Sakura...of-of-of course not."

Naruto put his hands in front of him as if he was holding an invisible soccer ball. Wind started to build up in his hands and soon he had a ball of compressed air in his hand. The saw drew nearer and Naruto squeezed the ball, unleashing it's windy fury. wild wind blew in every direction at extremely high speeds causing the saw to be tossed around like a ragdoll. As well as Yoki. The two were tossed around in a way that no one could predict. The swirling continued. The next thing Yoki knew he was about to collide into his own stone saw. Thats when he was cut in two. Decapitated by his own creation. The wind stopped and Naruto was declared the winner.

He looked into the crowd and found Sakura happily waveing to him.

Looks like they wouldn't have to wait as long after all.

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there i put this up for u guys happy now? I honestly hated writeing this second part so DO NOT ask me to right a third part CAUSE I WILL NOT!! this is the end got it!

...hope u liked it :)
(i didn't)